That is good start, my heart beats when bitcoin goes down cos I know steem always goes down with it. With the recent development ongoing with steem, there is every possibility of steem being free from btc.

I do believe in the power of Steem. Like you already said, there is so much development going on on the blockchain. although I do realize that the problems , for instance, of the HF20 does scare people of and growth is some slower... But with a lot of steem ambassadors we should survive ;)

It's an ongoing process. HF20 had a rough start but I think will benefit the blockchain greatly. I did underestimate how much this would effect new users I must admit luckily this will soon be fixed with RC delegation.

It does get frustrating seeing the markets all move in tandem with Bitcoin!

And I agree that Bitcoin is a bit 'stale' - no new developments or anything exciting happening! The reason it remains at the top is because it has the first mover advantage - when you ask the evrdya person about crypto the first thing loads of people would say is Bitcoin.... lets hope Steem can change that!

I have a similar vision that what will finally break the overall downtrend of the market will be the few assets that have delivered on economically viable protocols and projects (like Steem) will outperform and gain demand over those that will ultimately fail for lack of adoption or development. This will lead to sectors within crypto that will become more uncorrelated to bitcoin goin forward, similar to what we see ib stock markets where bank sector and tech sectors could trade with different valuation changes on a daily basis.

I have been seeing this a little with Steem. In the past, the graphs for all the coins looked almost identical to Bitcoin's but nowadays I am seeing Steem starting to look different. I think people are starting to separate bitcoin from other altcoins more than before which can be a good thing. I have seen Steem prices go up with bitcoin goes down.

Are the Vlogs back?? After 365 (1 year), is this the beginning of another 365 Vlogs?

I do think we and the major coins below BTC will break this relation up/up or down/down, as soon as the masses reach crypto, because for now there are just not enough money to avoid that. BTC dictates the pace, and for now we can only wish for BTC to moon, which will mean we will follow...

I suppose up and down is just the nature of the beast. We may see $10 again and mayb .50 cents, who can say. I am impressed that bitcoin seems to be staying about 6000 amazing when you consider just over a year ago, really.